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JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (AP) - The top U.S. health official praised South Africa's new national AIDS plan on Sunday, but sidestepped questions about the dismissal of a deputy minister seen as a driving force behind the country's program.
South Africa's five-year plan, launched earlier this year, aims to reduce the number of new HIV infections and to extend treatment to 80 percent of those with AIDS by 2011.
South Africa "has constructed a good plan," Mike Leavitt, the U.S. secretary of health and human services, said at the start of his visit. "Now it must be executed in a way that makes good on the prospects it offers and the hope it can provide."
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